2024 Honda Passport

Pros: Tons of cargo room; reasonably efficient V6; standard AWD Cons: Unremarkable cabin and infotainment; expensive; not particularly sporty as rival SUVs; dated platform No, it’s not just your imagination: The 2024 Honda Passport is essentially a sawed-off, last-generation Pilot. Not only does that mean the Passport’s not as long and doesn’t have as many seats, it also doesn’t benefit from the new Pilot’s re-engineering. To many, that will seem like disadvantages, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t remain a modern and capable midsize two-row crossover. Yep, it’s a midsize SUV; wider than Honda’s bread-and-butter two row, the CR-V, but with a less-cluttered cabin than the aforementioned Pilot thanks to the deletion of its third row. In its place? Just more cargo space. The result is a vehicle geared toward those who don’t need six rear seats to haul around two kids. Or those who don’t have kids at all. Or those who’ve already sent them off to a farm upstate. Wait, is that the wrong metaphor? In any case, if gear hauling matters more to you than people hauling, the Passport may just be what you’re looking for. It also stacks up well to its diverse group of competitors. It’s more on-road friendly and fuel efficient than the Toyota 4Runner, yet more rugged and utilitarian than the similarly sized Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport. It also has more space than the admittedly more luxurious Jeep Grand Cherokee and sportier Chevy Blazer. It's also an SUV, unlike the Subaru Outback, which nevertheless has a similar skillset. Interior & Technology   |   Passenger & Cargo Space   |   Performance & Fuel Economy What it's like to drive   |   Pricing & Features   |   Crash Ratings & Safety Features What's new for 2024? The 2024 Passport benefits from the lessons Honda engineers learned redesigning the 2023 Pilot. The TrailSport gets a new suspension and a set of true all-terrain tires provided by General, giving it more off-road credibility than last year’s TrailSport. Honda also took the opportunity to redesign the Passport’s center console (current owners said they wanted it more normal and SUV-like rather than the more minivan-like outgoing version), resulting in room for both a wireless charging cradle and a second wireless device side-by-side beneath the main stack. There’s also a new Black Edition, which replaces the old range-topping Elite model and offers some blacked-out trim elements for additional panache. Underneath it all, though, this is the same old Passport.     What are the Passport’s interior and in-car technology like? The Passport’s interior used to be a carbon-copy of the Pilot’s, but now that Honda’s larger SUV has been redesigned, the siblings have less in common. The Passport’s interior is a bit dated and not as visually interesting as what you'd find in a Chevy Blazer or Hyundai Santa Fe (or the new Pilot for that matter), but materials quality is very strong for this segment and everything is put together exceedingly well. Despite diverging in aesthetics, the Passport still inherited much of the Pilot’s …
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